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100 Days Of Awe: Day Sixty Eight – Dogwood Day

My phone has not been working since Monday. One of the reasons why I got the HTC One S Smart Phone was because of the camera quality. I dropped it shortly after I bought it and before I had taken the precaution of a protective case so the cover is chipped and the glass is achingly fractured. More recently the charging connection has seemed a little tempermental. My contract is up in July and I am hoping to switch to SIM only. On Monday all attempts to resuscitate the red charging light were doomed to failure which had a direct impact on my Days Of Awe project. Without my camera I was adrift and my curiosity about the visual world around me was tempered. As it happened this was a very neat reflection of my reality; taking a deep introspective dive on William Whitecloud’s Creative Warror training at Barnett Hill, Wornesh, Surrey the spotlight was on my internal landscape. Back in London on Thursday I took a reticent visit to the Geek Squad at Carphone Warehouse. Their first step was to put the phone on charge. I wasn’t too hopefully but I waited refusing to dive into the tangle of of despair that not having a phone would precipitate; the hassle, the cost. Not something I wanted to contemplate so I didn’t. And then as if by magic the world was at rights again.

On the way home I was startled by these showy roadside flowers, a lone specimen in a row of regular scrawny kerb side crawlers, sedate and elegant amongst the roadside geezers and quite exotic too it would seem possibly a Japanese Dogwood. A relief to be back to capturing my experience of life.

100 Days of Awe is a playful project I set up to bring my attention to awe in my daily life. I see awe as wonder, a mixture of amazement and respect. I expect the experience of awe to be about perception shifting awareness and that demands a reframing of some sort. I am excited to see what will awe me on this journey.

Anne K. Scott is an imagination technologist, her work to teach, facilitate and deliver innovation for individuals and business. She is the creator of FindYourMojo a FREE iPHone productivity app. If you are interested in what intuitive coaching can do for you please do contact me. I support clients all over the world.